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exacqVision S2 OVID Driver for Linux Fails to Install

Description 

The exacqVisionOVID.deb file available at https://exacq.com/reseller/exacqVisionOVID.deb fails to install on both Ubuntu Linux 18.04 and 20.04. 

Product 

  • S2 Integration 

Steps to Reproduce 

  1. Download https://exacq.com/reseller/exacqVisionOVID.deb
  2. Run the command dpkg -i exacqVisionOVID.deb 

Expected Results 

The OVID package installs successfully 

Actual Results 

The install fails with the following error. 

Solution

Run the following commands.   NOTE:  ./cfgedit still fails to work but caja can be used to edit ovid.ini 

  • sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386
  • sudo apt update
  • sudo apt install zlib1g
  • sudo apt –fix-broken install
  • sudo dpkg -i exacqVisionOVID.deb
  • sudo ./cfgedit
    •  ./cfgedit: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    • use caja instead to edit ovid.ini 
  • sudo caja
    • navigate to /usr/local/exacq/ovid
    • directly edit the ovid.ini file

See trac Ticket #23269 for additional details